Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
- At the Front
- Dundee’s Own
- Battle of Loos
- Ranks, roles and jobs
- Daily life at the front
- The War at Sea
- HMS Vulcan and the 7th Submarine Flotilla
- ‘Dundee Ladies Drowned.’ U-boats and Surface Raiders
- ‘Every shot was a hit!’ HMS Dundee and the North Sea Blockade
- ‘Engaged submarine with gunfire.’ HMS Perth and the Red Sea Patrol
- Sea Soldiers. HMS Unicorn and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
- North Sea Patrol. Royal Naval Air Station Dundee
- Commemoration. The Roll of Honour and Seamens’ Memorial
- Letters to and from home
- Dundee facts about WW1
- 5 myths of WW1
- Brave Animals
- Cemeteries and memorials worldwide
Commemoration. The Roll of Honour and Seamens’ Memorial
More than 600 Royal Navy sailors, merchant seamen and civilians from Dundee and the wider Tayside community lost their lives in the Great War at sea. Just one among them was 30 year old Leading Seaman George Paton (circled) who died along with many of his shipmates when their M-class destroyer HMS Mary Rose was sunk in a gun battle with enemy surface raiders off Shetland on 17 October 1917.
The son of a former seaman in Dundee’s naval drill ship HMS Unicorn, George lived with his wife Mary in the city’s Bernard Street. In May 1918, seven months after the sinking of HMS Mary Rose, Mary Paton gave birth to a daughter she christened Mary Rose after her late husband’s ship.
Today, George Paton and those like him who lost their lives in the sea war are commemorated in both on the Dundee Seamens’ Roll of Honour and with a memorial plaque unveiled by HRH The Princess Royal in the City Churches on 10 July 2017.
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